Juneteenth (6.19) is celebrated because it marks the day in 1863 when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas and announced that the Civil War had ended. The slaves were now FREE. This announcement came two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which had declared all slaves in Confederate-held territory […]
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